ah right sorry I see now how that could be a confusing post and image. I mean the fonts near the icons in *TOOLBARS* are not as I like them. Compare in the image above the two 'Back' words. One in the dropdown menu and the one of firefox's toolbar. The last one is heavier and less pretty. aMule uses that less-pretty font through its entire interface (maybe more applications do).

The "Back" in the toolbar looks like it's been painted over a few times without erasing the background, thus compounding the anti-aliasing, darkening the edges, and generally muddying the appearance. That would be an issue in the application, not the font rendering stack.

Does anybody else notice that apps consume more memory over a period of time while using newspr and full hinting? My firefox is at 450MB at this time. Grew from 250MB to start with.

Similar trend with thunderbird and konqueror. Is this because of newspr or is it because of subpixel full hinting or is subpixel full hinting triggering some bug in nvidia driver? I have always used medium hinting without subpixel hinting and never faced this issue before.

From looking at the ebuild, it doesn't look like it. I didn't bother to compare the contents of the various patch files though, so it may be that they are getting applied.

What is strange to me though, is that after syncing portage and the overlay today, I see the update, but the ubuntu USE flag is being filtered out somehow... at least that is how I'm interpreting the emerge output.

Edit: I think I need to re-read the portage docs... I think this is telling me that portage is going to replace the overlay version with the one in the main tree. Time to check the keywords on everything I think.

The new version of Cairo in portage seems to have fixed the problems which I was having earlier. Great news!

However, in both GNOME and KDE OpenOffice.org and Evince/Okular do not make use of sub pixel rendering. For Openoffice.org it is the entire interface that is affected, with not even the GTK-style menus making use of it. For Evince/Okular it is just the PDF rendering. Does anyone know if there is a patch available for poppler/OpenOffice.org to correct this?

You guys, we really shouldn't be calling this "ClearType." The newspr patch was already controversial enough. The very reason it's not integrated into the mainline is due to fears over patent infringement. And now you want to call something "ClearType" straight out? That's suicidal.

You guys, we really shouldn't be calling this "ClearType." The newspr patch was already controversial enough. The very reason it's not integrated into the mainline is due to fears over patent infringement. And now you want to call something "ClearType" straight out? That's suicidal.

Actually the patch is reads"cleartype-like". The useflag is called "cleartype" and thats how the gentoo guys named it.